Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE'S A CLASSIC 'Life in these United States' anecdote about the owner of a neighborhood grocery store who was a whiz at toting up customers' purchases. Around income tax time he was unaccountably stymied by the 1040 form until he discovered the reason for his mental block. Picking up a stack of grocery bags, he completed the necessary calculations easily in his traditional way--on rough brown paper with a pencil stub. The same psychological process may be manifest in author-lawyer Louis Auchincloss, who finds he can only write novels in longhand or familiar yellow legal pads...
...other hand, if you ask Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College and Harvard's statistical whiz-kid, how he determines the number of people to crowd in each House, chances are you won't be satisfied with his answer, assuming, that is, that you can understand...
However, almost accidentally, both teams recovered their pride for the final 20 minutes, as aggressive, fast-paced hockey returned to the Garden ice. Harvard outscored Cornell, 3-2, in this period, the big story being Bell's hat trick goal at 11:47. Other tabs were by freshman whiz George Hughes at 9:09, and Bill Horton's game-knotter...
...building and the world's tallest hotel. Inside, guests enter a seven-story-high lobby big enough to hold a triple-level lounge, a forest of Ficus trees and a half-acre lagoon fed by fountains and a 100-ft.-wide waterfall. All the while, glass-enclosed elevators whiz like space capsules past the 1,100 guest rooms to a revolving rooftop restaurant...
...month's Esquire, flanked by two full-page ads ("low keyed," Xerox calls them) that identify Xerox as the sponsor of a journalistic first, a "special in print." There has been a certain amount of fuss about all this, which Salisbury may have anticipated ("A first I thought, gee whiz, should I do this," he said). In the Ellsworth (Maine) Times, E.B. White said he detected "the shadow of disaster" in the Salisbury-Xerox nexus and wondered if next we will see Gulden's Mustard commissioning Craig Claiborne to write about "The Place of the Hot Dog in American Society...